cuomo. >> good morning welcome to your "new day." it's tuesday, june 10th. 8:00 in the east. we have a new york prison worker who's apparently now the focus of the investigation. she tells investigators she planned to pick up the two escapees from the upstate facility after their get-away. but the source says that joyce mitchell -- that's the worker's name -- that she got cold feet at the last moment. it's day five of this man hunt. are police closing in on these dangerous fugitives? do they have any clues, randy? >> reporter: not at this point, though they are still looking this morning. let me talk a little bit more about joyce mitchell. we are here at the prison where she works. she's been here since 2010 as an employee. she's married. she lives in dickerson. she apparently knew them pretty well. that's why she's being

questioned in this case as a possible accomplice. she hasn't been charged, just questioned. she's apparently cooperating with authorities. her cell phone was used to make several calls to one of the escapees colleagues. people that he knew. several calls were made in recent days. we don't know who made those calls, when they were made. or if she even knew her cell phone was being used. she was supposed to pick them up. she apparently had a change of heart at the last moment and decided not to. all of that may have sent her into a panic attack and to the hospital. this is what her son told nbc. >> she is not the kind of person that's going to risk her life for other people's lives to let these guys escape from prison. >> she was in fact in the hospital that evening. i don't know the exact details. i just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned about that.

>> so these guys were apparently counting on her. so who knows where they are right now or what their needs are without her helping them out there in the field? we know there is some concern they may have headed north to the canadian border about 30 miles from here in the dannemora. it's a lot of open areas, as they call it. there are some official checkpoints. but in those open areas you don't need a passport or documentation to cross from the us into canada. i had one foot in the u.s. and one foot in canada and then i just walked right across the border no questions asked. they do have canines in that area searching the trunks of cars just to make sure there aren't any guys up to no good hiding out. they also have video surveillance which can keep an eye on the border. we were told by border patrol just yesterday they picked up three guys they said were coming from iraq trying to cross from

the new york side into canada. >> that's a great point. it's a different story, but the porous nature of that border up north -- we always think about the southern border -- certainly a cause for certain. hopefully they get them before that happens. two suspicious men sent police racing to a town about 30 miles from the prison. this is amateur video of what happened. you see a phalanx of offer passenger doing a field comb. did they believe the lead? is it true about the dogs picking up a scent? how far along are they? >> reporter: at this moment they're continuing to move forward with this manhunt. that massive search about 30 miles away from here all started with a simple phone call. someone saw two suspicious individuals walking down a lonely road in the rain that

automatically raised a red flag. a massive response that we saw yesterday as police officers descended on that tiny town. local, state and federal - officials on the ground and in the air. they did not find much. not only did they search farms and fields but also surveillance video. also not a whole lot that was discovered there. we're beginning to see a few hundred officials now beginning to stage and head back out. just a few moments ago we saw a small group of correctional officers staging here an area that's essentially serving as their staging area a command post. the challenges though have been the terrain for example. acres of wilderness here. one thing that is on their side now that it's day five of this search it's really the weather. they have been going through so

much thunderstorms, downpours, even heavy fog. today, though, obviously a very different situation. one thing they want people to do is go about their lives, but of course stay extremely alert. >> it looks like if the weather is any indication today may be their day. joining us now is the fbi's former deputy assistant of the counter terrorism division. he lead the task force to capture the unibomber. thanks so much for being here. it's hard to imagine two more challenging man hunts than eric rudolph and the unibomber. do you think these two inmates are smart enough to stay on the loose for long? >> i think they are. they could stay on the loose for a few more hours, days or weeks.

i think that what you're seeing there is a massive investigation that's well organized, that's very integrated. you made reference earlier to several parts of it. but essentially they're looking at the escape and of course interviewing people. and the information that was laid out about joyce mitchell they're trying to determine what she knows and if she had much vomit, involvement. they're leaving no stone unturned. learning as much as they can about these men's habits and places they liked and inhabited before. and they're focused on the tactical element offense their search in the area of upstate new york. the whole purpose is to find them but also to try to seattle them -- seal them off.

>> therefore these two legitimate sightings of them. one just after they popped out of that manhole. somebody thought they spotted them in their back yard. they even had an exchange with them. and then yesterday somebody else 40 miles south of the prison thought they saw two men wandering along the shoulder of a road. this was in a driving rainstorm and at night. doesn't that tell you that their plan if they had one, has fallen apart? >> it sure does. it actually makes me hopeful. the initial sighting where they were approached by a citizen, if this in fact was then, and they just kind of wanted to get away from there and kind of backed off and left. shows a couple things they weren't aggressive. and secondly they most likely after they escaped had no help or the plan they had fell apart. the other thing that's interesting about this is about

public help. these the cases actually have that fourth dimension. and in the eric rudolph case we experienced this every day. you're waiting for that phone call. you're exploring all these leads. you're looking at and assessing everything coming in. and everything changes instantly when you get that call and you end up in a town like. these two people unlike rudolph and unlike some of the other recent fugitive searches these people aren't survivalists. when they get tired, wet, hungry and everything else they've got to make another plan. they're either need to get a car. that's where the public can help by looking at something that might pop out as they occupy a neighborhood cabin that people notice they shouldn't be here.

>> does it help them or hurt them that they're still together? >> it could be both. if they want this to end peacefully it will certainly end peacefully. hopefully if they're still together maybe they can help each other kind of reason through that hey, we've had a run, but it's time to throw it in. and this wasn't what it was cracked up to be. so we'll have to see. >> they don't sound like the type that surrender. these are hardened criminals. i do want to ask you about joyce mitchell the woman who allegedly reportedly was going to help them escape but got cold feet and ended up in the hospital herself with panic attack. what could be her motivation to help two murders get loose? >> well we're not going to really know what her motivation was until much more informing gets out. and we just don't know. i mean i always am reluctant to

speculate on people's motivation. i have been through this before where a fellow named george nordman had been accused of helping rudolph. i always have brakes on with that. we'll all find out soon enough. the big thing about her and about the escape aspect of this is what happened after they left. and did they have help. and i think they haven't had any help. that could maximize the chanszsces to find them sooner rather than later. >> let's hope you're right. thank you so much for being on "new day." if you have any information on the whereabouts about these two escapees contact the u.s. marshals at 1-800-336-0102.

>> a texas police officer turning in his resignation after slamming a 14-year-old girl to the ground and pulling his weapon at a pool party in texas. >> reporter: good morning. the officer had been on administrative leave. he decided to turn in his badge even before the investigation was completed. some people in the community say that resignation just isn't enough. >> the actions of casebolt as seen on the video are indefensible. >> reporter: eric casebolt seen on that video yanking a 14-year-old byikini clad girl to the ground has now resigned. the dallas suburb police chief says it's too soon to say whether he'll face charges. >> our policies our training our practices do not support his actions. he came into the call out of control. and as the video shows, was out

of control during the incident. >> reporter: this as protests continue over the shocking incident. some teens at the pool party say the police officer's actions were definitely racially motivated. >> right when he came black kids over here white kids over there just straight up. we want to see all the black kids because they think we all did something. and the white kid are innocent. you guys can just go and take your phones out. >> reporter: teens and adults were press passing at the privately owned pool. and there were reports of vandalism and fighting in the area when the officer responded. casebolt has not responded to cnn's requests for comment. so so far we have not heard from the officer himself. and at this point, we're being told that officer casebolt will not be speaking to reporters today. we have learned this morning that his attorney is planning a news conference for this afternoon. hopefully we'll learn more about his side of the story.

>> thank you very much. washington, d.c. is on edge after a series of phoned in bomb threats. the threats were serious enough to cause the evacuation of parts of the west wing and capitol hill. not serious enough apparently to evacuate the president and the first family. why? cnn live at the white house with the very latest. >> reporter: good morning. these two evacuations happened nearly back to back hours apart from each other. federal officials are now looking to see if they are linked in any way. tuesday's press briefing was business as usual, until -- at nearly 2:00 p.m. in the middle of a live briefing the secret service says a bomb threat was called into the d.c. metropolitan police specifically targeting the press room. reporters evacuating camera crews packing up their equipment before bomb sniffing dogs were on the scene.

secret service officers even covering up the press cameras during the evacuation to protect the agency's investigation tactics. this security scare came hours after a bomb threat was called into the capitol hill police targeting an investigation in a separate building. >> if you could in orderly fashion, please exit. thank you. >> reporter: the bomb squad sweeping the third floor, the area the caller specifically targeted according to a senate aid who was briefed by police. after the all-clear, journalistedjournalist ed s filed back into the briefing room. josher josh er earnest peppered with questions. >> i have complete confidence in the professionalism in the

secret service to make judgments about what's necessary to keep all of us safe. >> reporter: this is an ongoing investigation, not only looking at a potential link between these two events but also looking into a broader connection to the spate of recent bomb threats against airlines recently in the last few a weeks. >> thanks for all of that. jeb bush delivering a speech in berlin germany this morning slamming vladimir putin. >> reporter: good morning. jeb bush clearly wants to cast himself as someone who is not afraid to take a tough line when it comes to countries like russia. he had sharp words for vladimir putin both in his speech last night as well as to reporters this morning. let's take a look. >> ultimately russia needs to be a european country. and ultimately i think as the deal with putin you need to deal from strength. he's a bully. and bullies don't -- you know you enable bad behavior when

you're nuanced with a guy like that. >> reporter: bush may have been speaking in germany, but he was clearly talking to voters back home in the u.s. who are frustrated with president obama's foreign policy. after this he's going onto poland where he has meetings with political leaders as well as business leaders there. he's going to cast himself as presidential but most importantly not make any mistakes. in our latest cnn poll we see jeb bush at about 13%. he's tied right around there with florida senator marco rubio. he's not breaking away like some expected he would. his presidential announcement is going to come up next week on monday. and he's going to be on the "tonight" show to make his appeal to younger voters. the release of a man who spent more than four decades in prison for a crime he said he

didn't commitment has been blocked. woodfox won't get out until friday morning at the earliest. he's accused of killing a louisiana prison guard. a base jumper leaps off the soup superstition mountains. their chutes get tangled. 125 feet above the rocks below, one of the guys winds up landing safely. the other hits this big boulder, left hanging above the ground. he got rescued. we only show it because he winds up okay. >> they're thrill chasers. i know. people watch the video because they love the thrill seekers but it's terrifying. >> my grandmother was one of the pioneers of base jumping. no, he wasn't rks she wasn't. >> no she was not.

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. texas police officer eric casebolt seen in this viral video throwing teenagers to the ground and briefly pulling his gun at a community pool party. he has resigned. that video went viral, sparked national outrage. has been seen more than 10 million times now online. joining me the teenager who organized that pool party and her attorney. mr. obi, i want to start with you. we know this police officer has now resigned. i want you to listen to what his boss said about his behavior at that pool. listen. >> our policies, our training, our practice do not support his actions. he came into the call out of control. and as the video shows, was out of control during the incident. >> he was out of control, now he's out of a job. does that go far enough for you?

>> yeah. i think it's an important first step. and i certainly applaud the chief for coming out and making the statements and the acknowledgment. but certainly given the nature of the situation and given his actions, i think that step two would be to look to criminal charges and the possibility of pursuing those. >> let me ask you. what was your reaction when you heard that he resigned his job. >> when i heard that he resigned as mr. obi said it's a great first step. it's a way to start. that's how i feel about it. >> let me ask you to give us some background of what exactly happened here. all of us are coming in watching this video. we see one police officer running around others who are much more restrained. we see a lot of people upset, kids very upset on this tape 37 you . you organized this pool party.

you asked your friend to come to this end of the year pool party. is that right? >> yes. >> the strict rules of the community pool is you can have two guests per person at the pool. were there more people than you expect who had came? was that why some of the residents at the pool were upset? >> i'll take that. i think that the party started off as a cook-out that was scheduled to take place at a park adjacent to the pool. and in previous situations you know that was permissible. and the rules were never, you know brought up as a basis for preventing that. so regardless of that you know i think those are important distinctions. i think the more important issue is that the actions were inappropriate. there was excessive force. i'm glad the police department has made that acknowledge.

>> so it was a casual cook-out and go for a swim after. you've gone it before. what happened there? one of the gentlemen who shot the video, he said he heard talk of a confrontation around the pool of white adult women arguing with young people there and using derogatory racial terms and stereotypes. did you see that? did that happen to you? >> yes. in front of the pool they were stating racial slurs to me and my friends, saying go back to your section eight homes and cursing us out, saying -- >> and these were adults? >> the f-word and things such as that. >> adult women were saying this to you? were confronting you? >> yes, adult women. >> what did you say? it's unacceptable. what did you say? >> i was basically saying it's not right. no one should be treated this way. you shouldn't be talking to anyone like that. that's disrespectful. >> and that's when things

started to spiral downward you think? that's when those adults asked security to call and get you guys out of the pool? >> no. that's when the lady attacked me. that's when both of them started to attack me. >> so you were physically attacked at the pool? >> yes. >> by these people? >> yes. >> mr. obi, what about that? what about charges against the women who attacked your client? >> yeah. that's a very important aspect of this case. you know, as she mentionmentioned, the use of racial slurs, the use of offensive language toward the individuals and my client, to es ka escalate that to physical assault, we want to make sure they're eer're prosecuted accordingly. >> will you ever go back to the pool this summer?

>> it's me community. since i live here i should be able to go back. i'm not sure i'm ready to go back as of today, but sooner or later. >> your friend on the video who was thrown to the ground by the police officer, how's she going now? >> she's doing fine. i talked to her, me and my sister yesterday. >> what did she say? >> she's feeling better recovering from the hospital. because she went to the hospital that same day. >> just give me a sense of how this whole thing -- it must be unbelievable that this all happened. this has been viewed 10 million times . the whole world is talking about this pool party that spiralled out of control. what are your thoughts? >> i feel that everything -- it was a big change for me and my friends and everyone that experienced this. i feel that the -- once you look back at everything you get a disgust felt. but this is a change to take advocate change and find a way

to make things better. >> thank you for dropping by and telling us that part of the story today. also her attorney. thank you sir. >> thank you. pope francis is preparing for a big meeting with vladimir putin. how will that go? we'll analyze next. what do you think? when i first sit in the seat it makes me think of a bmw. i feel like i'm in a lexus. you would think that this was a brand new audi. it's like a luxury car. feels kind of like an infinity. very similar to a range rover. this is pretty high tech. yeah it is. it reminds me of a mercedes. ♪ this is chevy? laughing i have a new appreciation for chevy. they thought about me. i could totally rock this. this thing feels pretty boss. it looks kind of dope. that's pretty cool. this is the jam. pretty bomb dude. maybe i will go chevy. i'm definitely in.

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. time now for the five things to know for your "new day." number one, a source tells cnn a wo woman who works at a new york prison where two convicted escapes, she admits she planned to be the get-away driver. but she got cold feet at the last minute. a cop who pulled his gun at a pool party has resigned. eric casebolt in hiding this morning after receiving death threats. president obama to send 500 military personnel to iraq to accelerate the training of rake ki -- iraqi forces. a series of phoned-in bomb threats caused evacuation of

capitol hill. president obama and the first family were not evacuated. a no-hitter at city field in a 5-0 gem. for more on the five things to know go to "new day" cnn.com. >> vladimir putin seeking a sympathetic ear from pope francis. he's set to meet with the pope at the vatican just a few hours from now. what's on their agenda? what are they going to talk about? >> reporter: we can expect ukraine to be on the agenda. we can expect the plight of christians in the middle east to be on the agenda. something of a tight rope for the pope to walk on with this one. vladimir putin copping here at a time when he's isolated from access to big international leaders. he was shut out of the g7 just a few days ago. but the pope has been criticized by catholics in ukraine.

and they're about 4 to 5 million of them there. the pope when he last spoke about ukraine, he talked about it as fratricide. they should have been much clearer, blaming president putin and russia for their vomit annexinvolvement annexing crimea. the pope likes to be a peacemaker likes to be in the middle and build bridges. the pope knows if he wants to unite the christians around the world, which he does he really needs president putin's support. putin really has a lot of the orthodox christians -- and there are about 225 million of them around the world. he has their ear. so the pope in a way needs putin as well. they have some commonalities of on this issue of ukraine, that is something the pope is likely

to be talking about building and peaking peace. >> it will be fascinating to see if the pope can persuade putin. thank you so much for that report. well does the u.s. have a winning strategy to baetd isis. we will ask general wesley character when clark when he joins us snex. nme. . e. . . e. x. t.

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. we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well about how recruit recruitment takes place, how that training takes place. and so the details of that are not yet worked out. >> that was president obama on monday admitting the white house strategy against isis is incomplete. now, news out of the white house that the president is considering sending hundreds more u.s. troops to iraq. let's bring in retired general wesley character. he's a former nato supreme allied commander. he's also the author of "don't wait for the next war." general clark, great to see you

this morning. >> thank you, allison. good to be here. >> let's start with the news this morning. the president is considering something like 400 to 500 troops to be sent to iraq in some sort of training capacity. is that a big enough number to change the direction of what's happening in iraq? >> i think if you send that number of troops in as training and you put them in the right place with the sunni tribes you can make an impact. what this is about is trying to do two things at the same time. number one we want to retard slow down isis. and contain it and eventually crush it. at the same time we don't want iran to take over iraq and dominate the middle east. that's not good for the united states or for our allies in the region. >> right. >> so there's a game being played inside the government of iraq. under iranian pressure the government is refusing to provide full assistance to the

sunni tribes even the tribes who might be willing to confront isis. so the united states has been putting pressure on the iraqi government. and the united states is taking more and more direct efforts to arm and equip these tribes. so that's what's going on. >> right. >> there's a law that's been held up in the iraqi parliament that would create a national guard in the province of anbar for these sunni tribes. the shia militia are getting government support, even though they're militia. the sunnis are saying, why aren't we? these tribes are drawn toward isis because they see isis as an alternative. they may not agree with everything isis does or says but they agree with it more than being dominated with iran. so the united states is trying to work a balancing act. >> and therein lies the complication. you've laid it out perfectly,

which is the sunnis are asking for help and the u.s. has said it does want to work with the sunnis and to help train the sunnis. it's complicated. how will the u.s. vet the sunni tribes to figure out what their true alignment is? >> it's not just the sunni tribes. some will rally to the government given the right support from the united states. but it's more about the iraqi government. it's about how do you break the grip inside the dawa party of the iranian influence. that is iran wants to play a game. what they would like to do is they would like to have the iraqi government become a pure shia government. they'd like to crush the sunnis marginalize them use isis as a way to get the united states to fight against the sunni

extremists. and at the same time use the iraqi government to keep the legitimate sunnis let's say, out of influence inside iraq. they want to dominate iraq. this is a sort of three-way struggle. and it really comes down to more importantly, a struggle inside the government of iraq and especially inside the dawa party, which is president abbad's party. >> why isn't there a strategy since this has been going on now for almost a year? >> i think there's a u.s. strategy but it's not -- when he says it's not a complete strategy to make it fully operative you've got to have the cooperation from the partners on the ground. and the biggest partner that hasn't cooperated is the government of iraq. >> what is the strategy? when you say you think there is a strategy how do you define that strategy? >> sure. i mean, the objective is to

contain and eventually destroy isis. you've got to go after both isis in iraq and isis in syria. but in the near term what you've got to do is prevent the continuing encroachment of isis in iraq. so they've just taken ramadi. you've got to build up the iraqi forces. you've got to support them. and the people of iraq have to believe in their own government enough and their way of life enough to fight against isis. that's the problem. >> because the president was saying yesterday that part of why there's no complete strategy is because he's waiting for the generals in the pentagon to present one. what's taking them so long? >> i think the generals are understandably reluctant to recommend putting u.s. ground troops in. because if you americanize this fight, you lose. it serves as a great big recruiting magnet. so the generals are sort of stuck on the problem of the politics of the iraqi

government. to be honest with you, that's not a military problem. that's a problem for u.s. diplomacy and u.s. leadership. i think we have to take the generals off the hook on this. this is not a generalship problem. this is a national problem for the united states. and it's about whether or not we're going to be able to reduce the influence of iran in the government of iraq. and that's complicated, because we've still got the iranian nuclear talks going on. >> absolutely. i mean there's this whole which he is game-- chess game. >> it's difficult. >> thank you so much. nice to see you. >> thank you, allison. >> you can post your comments on facebook/"new day." let's go over to christine. >> thanks allison. if you suffer from heart disease, good news. the fda is recommending the approval of new drugs that could change your life. we'll take a look. and a quick programming note.

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. big developments this morning for the millions of americans at risk of heart

disease. an fda panel recommending the approval of new drugs shown to drastically reduce levels of bad cholesterol. these drugs could be more potent and carely lycarry less side effects than stat statins. this sounds like a game changer. is it a big deal? >> it is a big deal. statin drugs have been around since the '80s. what the issue has been for some time is there's some people who just either don't respond to these medications or the medications give them too many side effects. so that's been the sort of goal for a long time. how do we take care of these people? and that's what this new class of drugs is really all about. >> it replaces the statins that some people can't tolerate? >> that's right, because of side

effects. the side effects are not small. you can get significant muscle pain. and if you have muscle pain you should be exercising. that's what your doctor tells you to do. some people complain of memory loss. >> how do they work? >> a lot of cholesterol lowering drugs work in a lot of ways. this actually blocks a certain enzyme in the liver and makes the livermore able to absorb cholesterol and get it out of the system. the body can do a good job of regulating your cholesterol, both makes cholesterol and can get rid of cholesterol. in some people it makes it well but doesn't get rid of it well. this tries to elamiminate it from the system. >> remind us why it's so bad to have high cholesterol and what the levels should be. >> for the most part what it can do is start to clog up your arteries essentially because of bad cholesterol known as ldl. what is interesting and i think

this is an important point s that people that have high cholesterol but have never had a history of a heart problem, have no current heart problems at all, there's not a lot of evidence that statins are necessary for them. who they're necessary for is people who have high cholesterol and have had a history of heart problems. there's a lot of people out there taking statin medications who probably don't need to be and probably aren't getting any benefit from that. there can be side effects from these statin medications. if you developing muscle problems memory loss there could be problems with it. there's a lot of cost involved as well. this debate around this new class of drugs has reinvigorated that wheel that whole thing as well. do we over medicate? and the answer is probably yes. >> critics say this new drug combination is also expensive. >> it's so expensive.

first of all, it's an injectable. you would inject this once or twice a month depending on how often you need it. take a look at that number. up to $12,000 a year. i did the math on this. if you look at the people who would likely qualify for this under the current system you're talking up to 150 billion a year for one class of drugs. we spent a lot of healthcare in this country, 4 trillion dollars. even by those standards, this is a lot of money. we're talking about one class of drugs, $150 billion a year. >> have we given up on trying to control this through diet? >> i haven't. i'm on the show all the time preaching this stuff. >> how do you lower your cholesterol through diet? >> we know that foods that are high in saturated faults are edd fats are going to increase cholesterol. you eat too much sugar, you can raise your cholesterol. if you put a big sugary soda in

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. welcome back everyone. chris has left to go on assignment. we've gotten a major upgrade here with christine and sanjay. listen to this story. when a washington state firefighter ran into a burning home 17 years ago, he did not expect to find that nine month old girl inside. but he knew he found her just in the nick of time. >> another 20 seconds and it would have been a different outcome. wow. >> seven years ago with the experience still fresh in his mind he searched for that little girl and found her. they have stayed in touch since then. and their worlds collided again saturday at her high school graduation.

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